Oswald Chambers Quotes
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You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
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With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.
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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
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We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
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Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
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Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.
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If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
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It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
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The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.
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There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.
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The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
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He must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.
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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
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Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
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There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.